Forty Hours Remaining
Sophie sat in front of the laptop, her fingers hovering over the keyboard.
"If I'm going to teach enhanced children how to survive, I need to understand how I survived first."
Aria placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder. "Sophie, we're not surrendering you. We have forty hours to find another way."
"And if we don't find one, at least I'll have created something useful before I'm taken."
The pragmatism in her ten-year-old voice was devastating.
Marcus pulled up files on his own laptop. "Victoria sent information about eight families with enhanced children. All of them struggling to hide abilities that are becoming impossible to suppress."
"What kind of abilities?"
"A six-year-old in Brazil who can hear conversations from three rooms away. Twin girls in German
